Table 2 Distribution of patients in classes of diagnostic comparison relative to the hospital ward where patients died

	Emergency	Intensive care units	Other wards	Total patients
Class	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)
I	18 (11.8)	11 (6.8)	8 (8.7)	37 (9.1)
II	44 (28.7)	22 (13.7)	19 (20.7)	85 (20.9)
III	32 (20.9)	56 (34.8)	19 (20.7)	107 (26.4)
IV	46 (30.1)	50 (31.0)	33 (35.8)	129 (31.8)
V	13 (8.5)	22 (13.7)	13 (14.1)	48 (11.8)
Total	153 (100)	161 (100)	92 (100)	406 (100)

Categorisation is according to the highest class of discrepancy for each patient (class I > class II > class III > class IV > class V).